Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI: add DMAUNSAFE analog to David Brownell's core
From: Vitaly Wool
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 14:19:29 EST
David Brownell wrote:
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 9:53 am, Vitaly Wool wrote:
Sound cards behind the SPI bus will suffer a lot more
since it's their path to use wXrY functions (lotsa small transfers)
rather than WLAN's.
No, "stupid drivers will suffer"; nothing new. Just observe
how the ads7846 touchscreen driver does small async transfers.
So just answer please yes or no: are your spi_wXrY functions intended
for usage at all or not?
Maybe you should remove them completely?
Vitaly
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